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Bill Graham (born Wulf Wolodia Grajonca; January 8, 1931 – October 25, 1991) was a German impresario and rock concert promoter . In the early 1960s, Graham moved to San Francisco, and in 1965, began to manage the San Francisco Mime Troupe. [1] He had teamed up with local Haight Ashbury promoter Chet Helms to organize a benefit concert, then ...
Oct 27, 1991 · Bill Graham, the acid-tongued concert promoter who championed rock acts during San Francisco’s psychedelic era and went on to play a leading role in pop music’s emergence as a cultural force,...
Creative and combative, charming and charismatic, Bill Graham was a child of history whose entire life was shaped by his family background. The son of Russian Jews who had emigrated to Germany in search of a better life, he was born Wolfgang Grajonca in Berlin on January 8th, 1931.
Bill Graham’s résumé would make any music lover’s jaw drop. He ran the Fillmore and Winterland, put on concerts with Miles Davis and Neil Young (at the same time) and promoted national tours for Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones. Graham lived for the music that he evangelized throughout the nation.
Built in 1915 as part of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, the building derives its name from the late impresario Bill Graham, who began the rock ‘n roll movement in San Francisco in the 1960s.
Sep 21, 2016 · The promoter behind the American production was Bill Graham, by then a music industry legend who had transformed the business of rock ’n’ roll beginning in the mid-1960s in San Francisco.
Oct 25, 2016 · He fled Nazi Germany as a child at the start of World War II, and became a tireless promoter of social causes, helping to stage such benefits as Live Aid in 1985 and...
